Bone marrow produces red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets, all necessary for human survival. Bone marrow donations, a common treatment for people diagnosed with blood cancers, and a ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

Sickle cell disease is a severe, inherited blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean, Middle ...

Megaloblastic anemia is a type of vitamin deficiency anemia that causes larger than normal red blood cells and enlarged and abnormal red blood cell precursors (megaloblasts) to appear in the bone ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD Multiple myeloma is a rare type of blood cancer that starts in your plasma cells. Your plasma cells are a type of white blood cell inside your bone marrow, the ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

and erythroid precursors in the bone marrow, respectively. The largest of these compartments is the erythron, comprising the majority of total body iron in adult humans, mainly contained within ...

This achievement follows Bahrain’s landmark decision on 2 December 2023 to become the second country globally and the first ...

Medically reviewed by Kierra Brown, RD Meat comes from animal muscles and tissues and includes organs like the liver and ...

An SCD patient in Bahrain received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy, marking the first time the treatment has been given outside the U.S.

Addressing barriers in acute myeloid leukaemia care in India to improve outcomes and survival rates for patients.

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...